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Archive: May 2014

“Los Angeles native and New York based visual artist, Kehinde Wiley has firmly situated himself within art history’s portrait painting tradition. As a contemporary descendent of a long line of portraitists, including Reynolds, Gainsborough, Titian, Ingres, among others, Wiley, engages the signs and visual rhetoric of the heroic, powerful, majestic and the sublime in his

“Something strange and wonderful happens when light enters a dark space through a tiny opening.” – Tom O’Niell I recently came across Abelardo Morell’s camera obscure work at the recent Annenberg Space For Photography exhibit “National Geographic: The Power of Photography”. I was familiar with the technique from my college photography classes, but found Morell’s

I often tell people that I’m such a bad Angelino because I don’t have a first name reference for all the local celebrities or that I’m an even worse Californian since I have never been to some of the top state destinations like the Yosemite Valley. Although I hope to one day take a trip